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HOME CIRCUIT. SUSSEX ASSIZES IlWag; MnNpAY, AUG. 7.—The Commission la: for holding the Assizes for, this Cuunty was s ap pinned for laA• Saturday, on. winch day", he Judges arttred in this town. The business of these assizes is not heavy, there are but seven prisoners in thN calendar, and no one of them for any serious - CIVIL SIDE. WOODH.kbil V. y..ING. This was an aett,.n . or trespass tor sporting on the Fi iintitr § sand, after notice, and has arisen out of a Contest which has embroiled part. of this county for a considerable time. The real Plaintiff' was Mr: Harbert, who resides at Corsica Hall, and the De fendant, a farmer of respedability. Mr. Serjeaut - SuErifitan,-for the Plaintiff, de- Scribed the trespass as one of a - most aggravated na tore. The Defend:int, in coMpany with several others, rode over the Plaintiff's grounds, not mere ly with a view of sporting, but with `a, design to tally to extirpate the game. For this purpote, they not only had greyhounds and lurchrs, but also were accompanied by no less than 12 or 14 ,beagle's. Hour they could have oonduEted themselves in a manner more destrudive to the game, he was at a loss to know, unless they _had hired halt adozenfellows with . gons to shoot all they would otherwise miss.— The Pldintiff; Woodham, he said, was tenant to Mr. Itirben, and that Gentleman being out on the 28th of February last, he saw the whole of this ca valcade on his grounds, ,He _remonstrated with them upon it, but was treated with most gross and vulgar abuse, instead of redress. He should shew that Harben merely desiNd to know - their names, when he was called '" scoundrel, villain," and the most opprobrious_names that scurrility could invent. He trusted, however, the Jury, by their verdict, would "put an end to this sort of intemperate con dud of the Defendant and his friends. Henry Reeds, a servant to 'Harben, said, he _ served notice on the-Defendant not to sport on the lands of the Plaintiff, on the ipth of February last; he was not sure that . it was addresSed to the De fendani by the Plaintiff'. The rest of the notice, except the address, was in' Mr." Harben's harid-; writing_ It - eas proved that a party was out sporting on 'the 28ib of February last, and . that the Defendant was on a piece of rape seed belonging to the Plain tiff, whither he went after -his brother, :who was guarrellini.,•with Mr. Harben. Mr. IVIAKRYATT, for the Defendant, told the Jury, that,• so far from the Defendant. having com mitted an aggravated trespasS, this was one of the most unfounded actions ever brought into a Court of Justice. The real Plaintiff . Was Mr. Harben, who, it was tree, had receiveclsnine bard names from the befendant ; but as the Jury probably knew him, they could' best tell - whether he deserved them or not.. The Defendant, who is a very large farmer, had, in company with hi 4 neighbours and friends, gone out sporting on the 28th of February last ; they held amongst ahem between 3 and 3000 acres of land, and had no intention whatever of trespassing on any - land belonging to Mr. Harben ; in fact they had never gone into any of his land,, when he thought proper to come up to them, and attack them in a very unwarrantable manner. This induced an altercation tity,een Mr. Thomas King, not. he, fondant, but his brother, and, by degrees, as they went on, they went off the bounds of the Defend ant's la'ed into the land of the Plaintiff. When they got there, the Defendant, R.King, got off his horse and went into the field to, preveni any 'contention between his - brother and Harben. The moment he got into tile field, Harbenexclaimed, " Ali, ab, Ofd Dickey, I've got you at last ; you have now committed a trespass, and you shall pay for it." He t i liould also call witnesses, who would prove that the Defendant was the nephew of the, nominal Plaintiff; that they lived on the best possi ble terms of friendship ; and that when, Woodham was remonstrated with upon his conduti, in warn inihis nephew off his land, he declared he was to tally ignorant of its being done. He said, at the re quest of Harben, he had signed some blank no tices; but so far from intending to warn, the De fendant off the ground, he was perfeEtly welcotne to `sport and shoot there as much as he liked. Two witnesses, of the names of Hichins and Hardwicke, proved, that they were sporting on their own and the Defendant's grounds; and that ;hey had no intention F9f trespaising on any'person; that they were followed and annoyed by Harben, in consequence of which an altercation took place, in which angry language passed on both sides; that Harben rode past them repeatedly, and looked in their faces ; one of them told him he would see no `face worse than his own, &c. At last, Thomas' King and Harben went into a clover field belonging to the Plaintiff, and Richard King, the Defendant, - followed upon which. Harben said, " -What, Dickey, I have caught you in a trespass at last."— The Defendant's brother also proved that the Plain tiff declared , he never meant to warn them off his' land, and the notice'had been given by Harben • without his knowledge. The . LORD CHIEF BARON held, that a notice so given was no notice at all ; and observed, if they be lieved the Defendant's witnesses, although a trespass had been committed, yet the smallest damages would satisfy the just;ce of the case. Vdrdiet for tin: Plaintiff—Damages tid. Lord ELLENBOROUGI finished the Crown Side early. Three prisoners were capitally convieted. The quantity "of whitings,in the River Eden, is greater than ever remembered. Carlisle has been abundantly supplied with this species of fish, at the very moderate rate of 3d. per pound.—No less than 1100 were taken last week, at one draught, at King Garth. " • STATE LOTTERY.—Persons who have bespoke parlicular_Numbers at SWIFT and Co.'s Offices, are respectfiiiiy in!ortned, that those Numbers are now ready tor delivery, and that if they wish to secure them at the present prices, they must take them be fore the 19th August, as after that day the pTiMS of Tickets Shares-will be raised, and if the present de i tund"continues, must be much higher before the Day of thawing. LVNDUN : Printed by RICHARD HARRIS, of No. 4. Martlt.tt-coArt. 4ow-street ; an , At the Stiti-OencE, No. t 12, Strand ; were 44i44i iisemenls, Orders tEIVES'TP9OL FAIR. , . Otir wool fair, held on the 26th lilt. was fully at tended : at dinner, several rooms were full of eom , pany, and acrOn.aiter they had dined, they assembled in the principahoom.. Lord Sheffield, who always presides, - then rose, and "I have colleCted, from a very extensive' correspondence, a statement ; respeeling the manufatture and prices of wool, which I conceive it may be proper to communi cate to the meeting. It well known, that 'Since I .had the pleasUre of meeting you laSt year, there has been great variation in the price of wool: Previously to that meeting, in consequence of the distrust which arose in respect to the American. - States, and the' disordered state- of. the Continent, our mantila&urers suffered a depression, more con siderable than - at any former period. of the war ; and, assisted by much misrepresentation; the price of wool was kept' down.; but, towards winter, the price rose rapidly, and afterwards, to an extent never experienced: before. I stated, at oar fast wool fair, and in confident terms; that that would be:the Case, and it was not difficplt to foresee it; and I particularly represented .that there was no • foundation for the supposition thSt the -manufac ture, of the finest wools (now principally under our consideration) were eSsentially prejudiced by the War, as the sale depends almost entirely on, the home market, and, comparatively, very little'on the export to the continent of Europe ; and h wish to bring to your recollection, that the home : demand .is .the great support of all ode manulattures, Little argument can be deduced trop the extrava gant prices.of wool, during the greater part of last winter and spring. - It was evidently occasioned -by wool-dealers,. speculating on the scanty supply of Spanish wool, and on the article being in few hands; however, it is certain, that the value of woelais,mpch higher than it has been of late years. • In respect to our . woollen trade in general, there is.no &net that it will be very considerably better than' it was- lest year. The American Non-Importation Ad is at an end ; several channels are found for our manu factures"; and whatever was deficient in the demand for them- in preceding years, •will be amply com pensated by the futUre demand; for -they must be • had somew here; and the manufa&ures of the Con tinent are certainly greatly reduced and prejudiced by revolution and war. The principal apprehen sion is, whether our manufaCturers will- be, enabled to procure an adequate supply of the raw material ? Whatever check or decline takes place in the excel leist manufa&ures of tine wool, in the West of Eng land, does not arise entirely from the scarcity and ' high price of Spanish wool, but partly from the high Wages, which are likely'to transfer the manufacture to the less luxurious manufa&urers of Yorkshire.— It has been g enera lly Sapposea, that the- manufac tdres of woollens, in the West-Riding, have been greatly hurt by the•war ; and especially, last year by the impolitic measures of the American States, which were "infinitely more injurious to themselves than • they could possibly be to us ; but it appears that the manufacture of broad and narrow cloths, (the only branch of the traded* which a .precise knowledge can be obtained), last year, amounted to (~ , ,309,007 yards of narrow, and . 9,050,970 yards of broad, - very little less than an average of the ten preceding years, which include several years of the greatest export. And, it should be observed, that, net withstanding all the declamation we have heard on the ruin ,of our trade, the decline in the export of woollens, of all sorts, in the last year, compared 'with the preceding year, is only 5 19,2821. official value.. 'Last-year, importation of wool from Spain was only 1,96 t ,7501b5. and the importation, including all parts only 2,353,7251b5. The preceding') ear, there was an extraordinary import of Spanish wool ; every bale was dispatched from that country, in conse quence of the impending ruin apprehended irons the invasion of Buonaparte ; and the aggregate import; into Great Britain amounted to 1 1,760,0001b5. much more than an average importation. But, the average of the great and small importations in 1807 and 1808, is nearly equal to the average of the seven years preceding, 1807, viz. 7,684,5471 W. If, therefore, the importation this year should not exceed the import of last year, the deficiency, 5,330,'8221b5. must be made up of the fine English wools. And, considering the state of Spain, Portu gal, Saxony, and all countries from which we re ; ceive wool, the importation this year will surely be still less than last year. Very much less than usual, a's appears from the Custom-House entries, has been yet received this year. The supply must be very scanty, as the provinces from whence comes the great mass of the Spanish export of wool, and the principal ports, (Bilboa, &c.). from whence it was exported, are now in the hands of the French ; - and; even if they were not, all that part of Spain, espe cielly; is in such a ruinous state, that the quantity of wool clipped this year must be greatly diminish-. ell; and as to a- - supply from Saxony, none can be expeeled. The increased demand, therefore, for our trinufaatures„ added to the very scanty supply of Spanish wool, must considerably raise the intrin sic value of our fine wools, which, it is well known are very greatly improved within a few years ; and . •the coat which I now wear shows that South Down wool may be used as a very good substitute for Spa nish ; its appearance is equally good. I have cor responded with every partplErigland, where there are considerable fairs for wool. At Hereford fair, Ist July., Itaeland wool sold at 3s. 41d. and was sup posed to be uudei sold ; my correspOndeut observing that his wool had been valued at 6s: 6d. by a man in the trade; but it should be remarked, that the, .Herefordshire wools are triuded, and cleansed irons some of their impurities. It is added, that the sel lers, pleased with prices higher than usual, had sold under the real' value. MY. George Wilbrahate• has , this year sold his Delamere Forest wool for es. 4d. Some had been sold,as high as Ss. 6d. arid one in stance as high as 3s. 64d. There are parts in the Dea lamere Forest fleeces finer than the South Down ; but the latter are more even, so that little difference is made in the price.. Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, who is well known to you all, as the distinguished. friend-.of the agriculture and ' trade .of the coun try, in his account of Thetford fair, on the 15th el July, says, that there., was great at tendance of growers, but little.. or no business done ; that 2s. aid. ,Was generally offered for the Down wool; that some was, sold at, 2s. 14:4d. and tlAal there was' no d .übt that' 3 . 5. will be generally iiven for the : best. I have since learned, that a considerable quantity of South Down was afterwards sold at that price. Letters trona Suffolk mention that Jets than; sus. per tod -, of 28:bs, whichls about 2s. I aid. per lb. for South Dowd. wool, has been re fused. Mr. Western, of Essex, who is also well known to many of you as a most competent judge, and perfectly well informed, says, that no busi ness. was done at the Colchester fair, 17th July e that one lot of a milling quaility has been sold for 2s'; 6d: but that the growers of the best wools will hot' take less' than 41. per tod of 281bs: or 2s. lOid. per lb. Mr. Western sold last year, in Irelancl,•at 3s. and his lambs'_ wool at ls.gd.. His factor says it will sell thr. 3s. 6d. this ye:ie.—, Evea the common wo,l, - in the Weald of Sussex, has been sold at 2s. 6d. and Mr. Collins; 'of 'Breech ley, Kent, has refused the same price for his wool, a mixture of Rotnney Marsh and South 'Down ; and I know several instances, in this county and out of it, where3s. for South-Down hav:e 'been re fused,. :I„lia.ve not so detailed an account of Mr.. Tollett's wool, 'as.usuela , but I Iwo from him that he has sold to the same persons ;who, have bought . his wool for several : years, 848 fleeces, of which 120 were pure Merino, arid the remainder ,mixect Me:-• rino, for 2731:. I os, which is eus. .Bd.. per fleece ; I have exerted the fullest inquiry, to obtain a correct opinion of the value of wool this year; and alter a doe examination' of a very extensive correspan deuce; the opinion 'I collect froM it - is, that 3s. appear to be n'fair price for our fineSt wools, and so propottiouately for wools of inferior quality ; and I think it sufficient, because it is equal to 45.. whets ashed and brought to ,the state. of Spanish. We 'should . not appreciate our wool, by the , very..!aorittaCted extent of the supply this year, but rather restrict onrselves to its intrinsic value. That value, :I do not hesitate to say, the grower of fine wool has scarcely ever yet obtaincl. Hitherto, it has been a depreciated-comModity; it has seldom . foond an open market; and the woolstaplers have never evinced a proper degree of discrianinerion, in respect to quality. But, an advanced price has promoted, and will always secure, a greater degree of care and attention to the quality of the ne e ee, ‘ lather than to the quantity ; and unless we can 66 tain a b'etter price than heretofore, the Weight of the fleece' will be the principal object of the grower.— This, is a crisis in_ the wool -trade of Britain ; acid by not exacting exorbitant prices, t4e.: manufactu-, rers, will be induced to use British fine wools in the' place of Spanish. If the present , extravagant'PriCe of- Spanish wool should induce the manufacturers ' to encourage, by advanced prices, the growth apd manufacture of British fine wools, the prejudices. ,of the country in favour of Spanish wool world be • ,soon done away, and we would become indepeit= .dent of other- countries for the. materials of our. staple manufacture, and save nearly three millions sterling to' thiS country; for nothing is more Clear ly demonstrated, than that wool may be raised in Englan; equal in quality to any that is.iin , ported." •. The candour of this statement seemed to be aC• kadvvledgedfroin all parts of the room. Neverthe less some of the buyers repeated the usual common place obServations on the cliffichlties under which the trade laboured, and whiCh were greatly exag gerated, even if _.applied to the state of it many months ago, but by no means corresponded with the present state of the trade. Indeed, they applied-so little to the statement which had. been made, that, Lord Sheffield observed, in answer, "read the re port again;" but some of them continued their vague assertions; that all the ,warehouses in the kingdom were full of goods, that there :was no demand of market for our Manufactures, and that it was rust colons to suppose that any man would pay such an extravagant price as three shillings per lb. Lord Shef field. replied, that the statement be had made was supported by authentic documents, Custom-)'rouse returns, and letters from. the most respeelable per , sons in all parts of the kingdom, where the neces sary. and best information could be had.. That ex pectation being very high in respell to price, he had mentioned 3s. which he knew had been refused by several, as a maximum for the finest .wool; and that he knew that price had been given in several parts of England, for inferior wood ; and that he by no means meant to guide the opinion in respeCt to wool of inferior quality ; I t has seldomhappened that .much businessas been done on the day of the fair ; however, towards night, the buyers and sellers had much conversation together; the owners of the finest, wools insisted on 51. per tod of 321bs. or 3s. t d. per lb. and there was little doubt of their obtaining at least 3s. per lb. A considerable quantity Of the inferior wools was sold at- 25. 6d. Lord Sheffield mentioned' that his tailor, who is also his woollen draper, and whose interest it was not to over-rate the quality, had valued the cloth of the coat he then 'wot, as worth 28s. per yard. The manufalure of the cloth, even at .the peseta hi;4ll prices; amounted to 6s. lld. per yard. The wool. at 3s. per lb. .7, o 11 Dying,- if drab colour, at 3id. per lb. I i it A yard of drab clot% - 3,i If woaded to a dark blue, at zs. 'per lb. Manutcturing and wool - - 2 9 A yard of blue cloth. v 15 Ioi leaving, at 28s. or even at 245. per yard, .a very suf _ficient profit to the manufacturer, draper, &c. , The annual Agricultnr4 Meeting held here on .Wednesday last, for awarding prizes and premiums to the owners of the best stock shown, agreeably to the Sussex Agricultural Society, was very full• .at .tended and the Stock exhibited for 'competition, exceeded both,in.quality and.quantity, that of any preceding year since the establishment of the-So . ciety. In addition to the several prizes awarded by the . Judges to the s uccess f u l can did ates at the abtAe. Meeting, a.wager between Mr. C.'ripps, Of Stallions, and Mr. Auger, .of Eastbourne, which would pro duce the best bull, was decided in favour of Mr. Auger. A sweepstakes between Sir J. Sebright,.Bart. of Beechwood Park, •.1 - ferts, and Mr. Thoinas, Saxby, of \lorthease, to produce the best one, two, and three-year old South Down rams, was 'deter mined in favour. of ,Sir John Sebright, for the best. of eact age ; and a wager betw6e i Yti and '' 'Mr. Read Kemp, whiCh produced the best 00.1 r, as decided in favour of Mr. Read-Kemp, Upwards of 1 . 00 agriculturaliStS and amateurs sat down to an excellent dinner at the Scar Inn ; on' the - removal of the 'cloth many *loyal and agricultnral toasts were -hfiskly circulated after- which - the' Judges - returned to the field, and awarded the prize; l'he President, the Earl of Egrentont, as usual, pre*. seated . a brace of excellent fat blacks foi.the diluter. , ,His Lordship's beatth was drunk with threelitiao three. SURI?EY SPECIAL SESSIONS. 11011SpiONGERLAN1r, AUG. 8. 'Tucker, a bankrupt; was opposed by Mr, Bmf.llow , .under the 35th clause for obtaining money uticiet false pretences, The. Learned .Co,unsel Mated,, that fur some tinie previous to his bankruptcy, the Pri-, setter had been carrying on a - systrn ot adcommoda- Lion notes to a very great extent, and that there were at present notes ❑npaid to the amount ot - upwards 0f'26,0001. Ivlzitty of these notes had been d►awtn and accepted by young men and boys under 21 years ofage ; therefore at...the time of negociating them, the Prisoner must have been aware he was commit ting "an act of. tr.aud, as the bills so accepted were in tact Worth nothing : these faCts he was instructed to say he should be able-to prove by letters in the Pri soner's hand-writing,. . • Several letters addressed to Messrs. Winter, Gril let and Co. and others; were then produced, init.! Mr. Gzillet was called-to prove the band-writing of tho prisoner._ - Mr. NotAti, on the part of the prisoner, contend- , ed, that these letters could not be received in evi— dence, as : the y related . to transuttioiis in - which the, opposing oreditof• had nu snare whatevr-,. and that sUch. haul been the d e cision. of Mr. Serjea - ut'OnsloW on the first day of the Sesslens. The Learned CHAIRMAN (Mr. Kendrick), how-. ever, was of opinion the,deiaining go into any evidence to estabhsh the trauo, wbctiler torineeted with big debt or not. 'The -letters were -then read.: They related to a system of bill transactions between the Prisoner and several persons in London avid eLsewhere and . 'll;ota the letters it appealed clearly that they weie accbra modation bills. In one of the iNters, addressed to . 'Mr. Jones, Manchester, the Prisoner desires - him to send some stainps, Numbers 2,3, 4, and 5, _ some signed by himself; others he was to accept,. and leave the sums of all Wail k; lie coinplainsOft he difficulty of ..getting.mptiey for them; and from thence inters 'the necessity of establishing a:.batils. Of theirewn. In4no ther.letter, addressed to Messrs, Winter and Co, he says, " I have inclosed yeu,two hills, drawn by Ayers, , on 'Ricker and CO.—one. -for 2041; ar seventy Op, and, the other for the same som,'at seventy-five (Jays . - -This Ayers, the Leained Counsel said, lie'could - prove was no other.person than the. Prisoner's foot--,, mad. The written instrtsttions from the - Prisoner to his clerk . were then read,: in which tie dioN:ts hirit to fill - up the blank signatures with various, sums, and then let Edward write off the acceptance's, tis (the Clerk) first 'doing it with a iencil. Tliis Ed ward, the Learned Serjeaut said, was achild; who could not write his .tittryie withotit its ,being first pencilled for him.- CLOARMAN WRS tilat, th is t u of Ming up and negociating billS was'clatly . lug money under false preences. Mr. NOLAN said, if such were theopinion ref Oa Bench, he must submit, and' cogs ut to the Pr:- soner's being reinandcd, sit ct to tine. opiniop of ttie Court of Licacli,asto the admissibility of the lettors which had b,:cit lead as evidence': against him.' He was then reii.inded, subjea. t 6 the opioion of the Court of King', .i.iench to be taken 14ext Term, . . • •, On Friday evening last, ia consequence of at formation, fames Wassth,,alLls Kelly; a notorion4 and desperate of ender, was apprehended •at Ltith. There were found couccaled. in his dollies, three' silver watches, two dozen silver tea-sk)on..:, one gOld ring, three gold breast-pins, some watch-chains, seals, and various shaWls, gownE, &c. • He has been committed for trial. iii, accomplice untoriunately made his escal.e. SHIP NEWS. GRAVESEND, AUGUST 7. Arrivel—the-Sisters, Laugnton, from Savannah ; Brian- Whitend, froth Gibraltar ; lirunswwk, Peters,• Charlestown ; ',leaver, Pearson, hunt Cadiz; Sea-rlowero AVGleish, from Lisbon ;. and the fame, Dunbar, Irons PM.. . _ I.• Sailed- the Lavinia, Kin3man, for St. Thoinas's ; Pow* }Lion, Porhyrgrass, tor Virginia ts Peggy, Coies, for Moga• dure; Duke of: York, 13etts, for ticaton.; Eliza, Thomas, .tor Sierra Leone; Lord Collingwood, Salmon; foi LisbOri ; Saragosa, IVl‘Kissick, for Cadiz ; betty; . 4 icai s i y, and tllO Sparkler, linivvri, for Oporto. . 'Fun 7'l/S. On Monday, at Sp.kith - alai the 14dy of I. Marryatt, LEq' ot a Son. Yeteniqy, at. his liOuse in Harley-street, the Lad; of Thomas fio,easou; F.sq. nCa. Son. • . - it17.7/?R/0. On Mond-+y last, at St. Giles's in the Fields., C. johnitor, Esq. 'of Compton- treor, Clerkenwell, to• Mi-s at. 14); SlitleptaCe. ' . • 0, 1 Wettlestiay llst, Captain Betts, of tile Revevd.tei Cutter, •secvmt (Jr johil iioit, " I " kye, Lent. - Lately, at Tarring, itt Suss.rx,7 Martin Topi)er, Esq. New.liurliogtootti:et, to .birds crt . peyomior4' DIED. -On Sunday last, in • RussrP•square, Fredc:4l, F.cn ChaEles Thoxnson, Esq. I The same day, at Cheshunt. Heris, Mrs. Sarah Ftex:c'il' On Menday morning, of a deOine, Sus m,younAast ter of the Hon. V% . ti. Gardner. The *awe day, at her son's !muse in•Powits. place, of ralytic_ stroke, Mrs. Arta Lowitcl.,,' relict ur I, I..c.,wmk, of paisley. , On the bth inst. at Vauxhall; in her 34th year, Mrs. t;ii.r" zabeth Norris. Oa board His Majesty's ship -Yolk, on his return from 0 0 West - Indies, Mr. Henry Hutchinson, second sun of the lair Dr. Hutchinson, of Wolreihampton. . _ Ur ESTE .5 . 7 VCA Bank Stock, Navy •-; pet Cent 98 j 99 Irish s per Cent. 11 4 per ...ent. per Cent keit. 681 . k 3 per Ct. Cons. 6S i f 13;ink L. Ann.-r 8 d ts.t6thsi 41)4 Y. India Stock,` lala auS, 1.161 pr. Exch. htilb, Bs. r;s. Onanurn, • 3 per Cent, Lhz.o Coss. /or Alig. 63 I .. I rablished by WI LLI AM• A RMIGE R SCRIPPS, Souttilyti,ton.stfeet,'G o vcoaC ,tquaar ror the P2per, Letters for the Editor, & - e, (post-paia),:must 4 , 4 addres